Republican Dave Agema Makes Major Homophobic Remarks

BERRIEN COUNTY, MI – Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema in a speech at a Republican meeting in Berrien County, MI on Thursday said that gay people are manipulating the system to get free health insurance. His remarks were especially damning because he was attacking the gay community based on the HIV/AIDS crisis and the costs of caring for someone.

“I’m a flight attendant,” Agema said. “You have AIDS. You come to me and say, ‘Hey, tell them I’m your lover for the last six months.’ You get on our health care. “American Airlines spends $400,000 before you die of AIDS. And he goes on to the next, and the next, and that’s what was happening.

“Folks, they want free medical because they’re dying between 38 and 44 years old”. Agema tried to appeal to the audience by calling it a moral issue, a biblical issue and that for the Republicans, traditional marriage is where it should be and that is in our platform.

Gov. Rick Snyder has come out against Agema’s remarks. Many in the community are calling for Dave Agema’s resignation. This is not the first time that Agema has made stunning remarks against the Gay community. In March he approved a posting on Facebook stating that “gay people were sexually promiscuous, rife with sexually transmitted diseases and responsible for “half the murders in large cities.”

Agema sent out an e-mail Tuesday night saying he was standing by his comments.

It does not matter if you are Republican, Democrat, Tea Party, etc., we as citizens of the State of Michigan should be blindly outraged and demand his immediate resignation.

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